A teacher from Paradise, California (north of Chico), generously donated this wonderful 100+ year old
photograph to the Montecito Historical Archives.

What is known is that the teacher in the photo is Miss Alice Westwick who received her teaching credentials
from Stanford University around 1911-12. Miss Westwick and friend answered an ad soliciting teachers
for the Montecito School for Girls (which was located at the Bliss Estate, which is now Casa Dorinda). Miss
Westwick was born in 1892.

Alice E. Westwick then became the Principal at this school in Montecito. Since the photo shows both males
and females, one can assume that it was not taken at the Montecito School for Girls.

Alice lived on Palm Drive (which may mean that she boarded at Tanglewood [Lotusland today] when Mrs.
Stevens opened a boarding house for teachers and students after Kenton Stevens death, and I believe that
the school was Cold Spring School. Cold Springs used to be named Palm Drive. Mr. Charles Eaton's Riso
Rivo estate in Montecito, California (now known as the El Mirador Estate) was purchased from Kenton
Stevens with the stipulation that Mr. Stevens plant palm trees along the road connecting their properties.